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 190 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 



13740, 14847); Oriente, comni. by J. R. Weir 10617 (in Mo. 

 Bot. Gard. Herb., 56235); Pinar del Rio Province, Earle dc 

 Murrill, 196, 201, 208, 295, 312, comm. by N. Y. Bot. Gard. 

 Herb., P. Wilson, 11570, comm. by N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb, (in 

 Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 61494); Puerto Principe Province, 

 Earle & Murrill, 582, 602, comm. by N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb. ; 

 Santiago de Cuba Province, Earle & Murrill, 1^60, 467, comm. 

 by N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb. 



Porto Rico: Ponce, F. S. Earle, 117; Rio Piedras, J. R. Johnston, 

 982, 982a, 972a (in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 9849, 61355, 61356), 

 J. A. Stevenson, 3597, 5158 (in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 12720, 

 6807) ; Utuado, N. L. Britton & J. F. Cowell, 999 (in N. Y. Bot. 

 Gard. Herb., and Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 61492). 



Jamaica: W. A. & E. L. Murrill, 40, comm. by N. Y. Bot. Gard. 

 Herb, (in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 56288); Castleton Gardens 

 and Chester Vale, W. A. & E. L. Murrill, 52, 314, respectively, 

 comm. by N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb.; Hope Gardens, F. S. Earle, 

 178, comm. by N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb. 



Montserrat: Roches, J. A. Shafer, 915 (in N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb., 

 and Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 61473). 



Argentina: R. Fries, 138, comm. by L. Romell, 333. 



Philippine Islands: comm. by C. G. Lloyd, 11215 (in Mo. Bot. 

 Gard. Herb., 58688). 



Africa: Natal, Durban, P. A. van der Bijl, 2, 36 (in Mo. Bot. 

 Gard. Herb., 58800, 58834) ; Unkomaas, P. A. van der Bijl, 1151 

 (in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 62079). 



10. C. bombycinum (Sommerf.) Bresadola, I. R. Accad. 

 Agiati Atti III. 3: 111. 1897; Bourdot & Galzin, Soc. Myc. Fr. 

 Bui. 27: 233. 1911; Wakefield & Pearson, Brit. Myc. Soc. 

 Trans. 6: 138. textf. 1919; Rea, Brit. Basid. 674. 1922. 



Thelephora bomhycina Sommerf elt, Fl. Lapp. Suppl. 284. 1826; 

 Fries, Elench. Fung. 1: 211. 1828. 



Type: in Sommerfelt Herb., in Univ. of Christiania Herb., a 

 fragment in Burt Herb. 



Fructifications irregularly effused, thick, membranaceous-soft, 

 pieces separable, at first white, becoming pinkish buff to cream- 

 buff in the herbarium, even or varying rough to a hydnoid sur- 



